I still have my factory battery.
I have over 45k miles and my Seq. is 2 years old. (2001)
The Houston Heat has not had any effect on my Seq.
Watch, when I go home tonight I'll have batter problems.
But so far so good. No problems, i just crank it up and go!
The normal life of an OEM battery is 4 to 5 years but I don't believe our Toyotas are getting that.
Normal life of a cheap battery is 2 to 3 years.
A few things affect the life of your battery but its age is normally the reason for its death.
Running your battery "totally" dead two to three times will kill even a new battery.
If your battery is in freezing weather for long enough and is not charged up it will kill it.
Vehicles that have very heavy electrical use (high amperage eating devices) will use up even a good battery every year or two.
Extreme heat and cold are very hard on batteries but I believe the cold is the worst.
Mileage has little to no effect on your battery.
I had a 1998 4Runnner with 82,000 mile on it and it still had the original battery! Only thing I bought for that vehicle in the 4 1/2 years of ownership was 1 set of tires. Some guy passed out and hit me. THe SUV was never the same. I now own a 2002 Sequoia. I think you just got a bad battery, or, like what was said before, your cranking a lot of amps.
Anyone have a leaky battery, I noticed mine is wet on top so I wiped part of it with a paper towel sure enough smells like battery acid. I guess that's gonna be another trip to the dealership. I only have 25k on it.
well ive got 15% pads left as toyota dealer claims. Im not paying $200 for a front brake job when I can do it myself. Should I go with a toyota brake pad for warrenty issues inthe future or should I just pick up the raybestos or wahtever kragen has? What is the price of pads for a sequoia?
And the battery is still leaking all over and the case is busted and the battery tray and hold down look pretty rotted out. They claim the battery is only covered for 6 months. should I believe them? Or use this as an excuese to get an optima?
I'd get Toyota pads just to avoid a potential conflict until the warranty is out. (IMO)
A car battery should *never* leak. If you hit it with a hammer that's one thing, but if it split open by itself, that's another. Take it to a higher level at Toyota and/or contact the battery manufacturer. Present it as a liability issue for them, not a warranty issue. Your car is damaged by a failure of their product in an unusual way. If you *don't* push for it, it makes it worse for everyone.
Yeah, pushed for it and they will cover it. Got my skid controll finally figured out to (or so they claim). They are going to change the ecu. They have tried to fix it in the past for others and have always had to change several parts to later find out its the ecu so they are starting there. Got my parking brake adjusted. The optimas would have been nice but at least I have $150 for other things.
Im just gonna get some raybestoes pads as I put 25K miles in a year and will prolly do 10K in the next few months so warrenty will be up sooner than later.
well, toyota and brake warranty seem to be mutually exclusive...for 200 bucks you can get porterfield carbon/kevlar pads and still have a hundred bucks left over, add 50 bucks to that and you get an optima battery ...your sequoia will thank you, and then you can start hooking up the massive sound and the dvd players and whatnot to that yellow-top deep cycle battery .
-sean
*edit* sorry, i think i was composing just as you posted...good to hear they covered you.
Originally posted by thecarguy And the battery is still leaking all over and the case is busted and the battery tray and hold down look pretty rotted out. They claim the battery is only covered for 6 months. should I believe them? Or use this as an excuese to get an optima?
I know, a little late in responding, but that is BS, but glad they finally decided to cover it. Our battery went bad at less than 20k miles and the dealer replaced it no questions asked.
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Originally posted by DeepStealth well, toyota and brake warranty seem to be mutually exclusive...for 200 bucks you can get porterfield carbon/kevlar pads and still have a hundred bucks left over, add 50 bucks to that and you get an optima battery ...your sequoia will thank you, and then you can start hooking up the massive sound and the dvd players and whatnot to that yellow-top deep cycle battery .
-sean
*edit* sorry, i think i was composing just as you posted...good to hear they covered you.
That would be nice but im not the kind of guy that would do aftermarket audio and stuff. (besides im saving up for another off road project...tacoma).
While checking the oil, I noticed the battery was leaking acid, it had leaked
onto the inner fender and sprayed up onto the underside of the hood, I removed the battery, and began to neutralize everything with baking soda
and water. After cleaning it up I found this post about replacing the original
with a Optima Red Top, since this is my wifes daily driver I settled with the
Red Top, I had to extend the ground wire. I moved the hold down bracket
from on top of the radiator support to Underneath and made a spacer for
the Tie down rod. Here is a Pic of the finished install.
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Optima Red Top Battery
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Nice job on the install of the Optima. I'm at 34k and my stock battery has also leaked acid that I had to clean up with baking soda. I may end up following your example. Thanks for the pics.
I have an Optima in my truck. Got a group 34 "orange top", which is the same as the red top with terminals reversed. The orange top matches the terminals of the OEM Toyota battery. You'll just need a Group 24 to 34 spacer and possibly a 1/4" sheet of plexy or plastic to make up for the height difference.
I love my Optima. No dielectric maintenance. Tons of starting amperage...I've had mine for 2 years now (swaped my OEM battery out after 1 year).
Now the top is red and that battery is the #34R.
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(NEVER EVER put two batteries directly in parallel with each other)
Why not. If the batteries are different types, sizes, or ages, yes, you can have problems. If the batteries are the same type, same size, and have the same number of discharge/recharge cycles, no problem. Lots of diesel pickups have two batteries wired in parallel.
Ken
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Factory Battery
...your sequoia will thank you, and then you can start hooking up the massive sound and the dvd players and whatnot to that yellow-top deep cycle battery 
Optima Red Top Battery install
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